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Shocking moment retired California pastor scrawls a SWASTIKA on his Jewish neighbor's groceries
Daily Mail ^ | 3/4/2024 | By Isabelle Stanley

Posted on 03/04/2024 10:20:44 AM PST by NohSpinZone

A retired California pastor has been caught on camera drawing a Swastika on his Jewish neighbor's groceries.

Leah Grossman confronted her neighbor, Mark Nakagawa, at 10.15pm on December 5, seconds after her doorbell camera caught him scrawling on a box of seltzer.

The single mother of two told CBS she was 'shattered' when she saw it was a Swastika, and asked him 'Is that a Nazi symbol?'

Nakagawa initially denied drawing the Swastika, but when confronted with the video evidence, claimed he was trying to teach her about the history of the symbol.

Grossman said it wasn't her first run-in with Nakagawa and claimed he had previously called her a fascist in a homeowners' meeting for hanging an Israeli flag from her balcony after the October 7 attacks.

Nakagawa was caught on camera drawing on a box of seltzer in Grossman's shopping on December 5

He initially denied drawing the symbol but later said he did it to teach her about its history as a Buddhist sign of peace

Speaking to CBS about the drawing, she said: 'I just fell to pieces. Like I've never shook like that before. My toes were shaking.

'I get emotional thinking about it because it reminds me of all the people I know, my family, my children.'

The incident was caught on her doorbell camera.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; marknakagawa; methodist; pastor; swastika
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He wanted to teach her history of that symbol so he secretly scrawled it on this Jewish woman's groceries.


1 posted on 03/04/2024 10:20:44 AM PST by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone
From the article: Nakagawa retired from his role as a pastor at the United Methodist Church last year

Bull crap like this and the hedonism the UMC pushes (and pretty much anything else written in the Democrat Doctrine Manual) is why a bunch of real Christian Methodists have moved their churches out of the UMC.

2 posted on 03/04/2024 10:24:49 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Why would anyone do that? What the hell is wrong with people?


3 posted on 03/04/2024 10:28:20 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: NohSpinZone

The title “Pastor” implies practitioner and teacher of the Christian faith. Doubtful in this case.


4 posted on 03/04/2024 10:29:17 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: Vermont Lt

I am have trouble trying to make excuses for this as the new time of Noah.

A few of us are left. I pray we will be spared.

Romans 3:10-12

“There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”


5 posted on 03/04/2024 10:32:09 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Is this the “Asian Hate” we are supposed to stop?


6 posted on 03/04/2024 10:33:45 AM PST by x
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To: JimRed

It’s a perfect storm of division though. The left will say this is how all Christians are. A perfect false flag event in a way.


7 posted on 03/04/2024 10:35:01 AM PST by xp38
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To: x

Maybe he’s one of those Japanese soldiers who didn’t realize the war was over and is still fighting on behalf of the Axis?


8 posted on 03/04/2024 10:35:38 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NohSpinZone

What is this person’s major malfunction?


9 posted on 03/04/2024 10:37:03 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: NohSpinZone

The Buddhist symbol is a mirror image of the Nazi symbol. I asked about it when I was in Asia and I was told that the Buddhist symbol is much older than the Nazis so they see no reason to change it.


10 posted on 03/04/2024 10:38:51 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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“Speaking to CBS about the drawing, she said: ‘I just fell to pieces. Like I’ve never shook like that before. My toes were shaking.”

Seriously? Talk about over reacting. This guy is obviously an ahole so go ahead and report him for harassment but it appears she’s trying to elevate this to the level of a serious hate crime. Are they going to start arresting people for a hate crime for using the “n” word now? We are getting on a slippery slope where they are trying to make minor instances of harassment into a serious crime.


11 posted on 03/04/2024 10:39:32 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: NohSpinZone
He initially denied drawing the symbol but later said he did it to teach her about its history as a Buddhist sign of peace

Besides everything else wrong with this, did he actually draw the Buddhist version, because the other swastikas are not like the hooked-cross of the Nazis. If he used the Nazi version, this makes even less sense.

12 posted on 03/04/2024 10:39:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

These nuts have always been around. But in certain situations like this, they are revealed. It’s like what Warren Buffet says, when the tide is out, you can tell who has been skinny dipping.


13 posted on 03/04/2024 10:41:08 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: nickcarraway

There are all kinds of mentally and emotionally deranged people.


14 posted on 03/04/2024 10:42:36 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Tai_Chung

I sound an old (pre-30’s) Rudyard Kipling book in my high school library. It had a Hindu swastika as a logo, which I found out was a logo for all of Kipling’s books, because of his association with India. I don’t know when, but sometime they changed it, I assume in the 30’s.


15 posted on 03/04/2024 10:45:49 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: NohSpinZone

Among certain groups, it’s cool to be an antisemite. Sick.


16 posted on 03/04/2024 10:46:17 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1997 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: NohSpinZone

You’d think the Japanese guy would know about the history of internments of the Japanese and be sympathetic to the Jewish woman.


17 posted on 03/04/2024 10:53:53 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: NohSpinZone

No surprises. I drive through a fairly liberal area of my city on the way to work every day. There is a liberal Methodist church, Unitarian church and Reform Jewish synagogue. Their message boards are constantly filled with messages like “Black Lives Matter” and “Hate Has No Home Here” and “We Stand with Ukraine.” They simply spout whatever the current liberal talking point is; rarely anything about God unless they twist it into a liberal talking point (my favorite was the Rainbow that God created after the Flood is symbolic of the Gay Pride Rainbow). So you end up with this obnoxious dope of a “reverend” painting swastikas just like we had “Rabbi” Hammerman claiming Christians would riot if Tim Tebow got into the Superbowl.


18 posted on 03/04/2024 10:54:13 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Tai_Chung

I was slightly wrong in my memory: Kipling books used a leftward facing swastika. He personally ordered it changed when the Nazi swastika started gaining attention. He reviled communists, and what he called, “Hitlerites.”


19 posted on 03/04/2024 10:55:37 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Why would Christians riot if Tim Tebow got in the Super Bowl? Why would Christians hate him that much?


20 posted on 03/04/2024 10:56:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
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